Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.